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22. February 2021

Jan Vogler and Dresden Music Festival plan to play under pandemic conditions – live and digital (February 2021)

With heart, caution and a high degree of flexibility, the Dresden Music Festival is currently preparing for its 44th festival season from May 14 to June 12, 2021. The aim is to provide world-class musical live events under the motto »Dialogues« in Dresden – while giving top priority to the protection of the health of the audience and organizers. For this reason, director Jan Vogler and his festival team are in constant dialogue with politicians, artists and the festival partners.

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15. February 2021

Omer Meir Wellber, the Teatro Massimo and Palermo in the FAZ (February 2021)

“Unlike many theaters and opera houses in Europe, however, the “Massimo” cannot be kept quiet. “Il crepuscolo dei sogni” – “Traumdämmerung” is what German opera director Johannes Erath and Massimo’s music director Omer Meir Wellber called their concert, which they simply added to their program. In an interview, Erath calls it a symphonic condensation of states in order to give the music a voice that was taken from it by Corona. The longing for music, for consolation is enormous, the premiere the next day will be followed by 30,000 people in the live stream, never before has the Massimo reached so many people.”

Omer Meir Wellber and his work in Palermo with the Teatro Massimo are having an impact throughout the city. Thilo Komma-Pöllath spoke with the conductor and experienced the city. The entire article can now be read here in the Frankfurter Allgemeine.

 

12. February 2021

Mari Kodama in a Livestream Concert (February 2021)

Mari Kodama, together with pianist Momo Kodama, violinists Sarah Nemtanu and Debora Nemtanu, and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR) under Alexandre Bloch will play a livestream concert from Katowice on 12 February. The program will feature Poulenc’s Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra and Martinů’s Concerto in D Major for Two Violins and Orchestra.READ MORE

9. February 2021

David Philip Hefti’s “Snow Queen” now also digitally (February 2021)

The CD with David Philip Hefti’s music theater “The Snow Queen” released in November 2020 is now also available digitally on all channels. At the world premiere of the work in November 2018, during which this recording was made, the composer himself conducted the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich as well as soprano Mojca Erdmann, speaker Delia Mayer and speaker Max Simonischek.

Listen to “The Snow Queen” on Spotify and Apple Music.

 

29. January 2021

Anna Netrebko at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna with Met Stars Live in Concert (January 2021)

Russian soprano Anna Netrebko will perform a live concert from the historic Spanish Riding School in Vienna on Saturday, February 6, at 7:00 p.m. CET/1:00 p.m. ET, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series. The program will consist of works by Rachmaninoff, Rimski-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky, as well as Debussy, Dvořák, Fauré and Strauss. She will be accompanied by Pavel Nebolsin on the piano and by mezzo-soprano Elena Maximova for duets from Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame.READ MORE

27. January 2021

David Philip Hefti conducts the Musikkollegium Winterthur in a “Hauskonzert” (January 2021)

Composer and conductor David Philip Hefti will conduct the Musikkollegium Winterthur in a house concert on Friday, 29 January. In addition to Mozart, Hefti’s own compositions will be on the program, for example the world premiere of his concerto “Cantabile” Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, a commissioned work by the Musikkollegium Winterthur from 2019. Hefti already has a long friendship with the orchestra and also with the evening’s soloist Jürg Dähler.

Overview of the concert:
29 January 2021, 7:30 p.m., streaming concert
Mozart: Symphony No. 1 E flat major
Hefti: “Cantabile”
Hefti: Adagietto for string orchestra
Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G minor

For more info on the house concert and tickets, please click here.

 

26. January 2021

Omer Meir Wellber on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January (January 2021)

Teatro Massimo, in collaboration with the University of Palermo, commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January with a special program featuring the Teatro Massimo Orchestra, Choir and Soloists, as well as Eli Danker and works by Arnold Schoenberg and Sergei Prokofiev, as well as the Jewish prayer Eli Ata veodeka. This will be followed by the performance of Destinatario sconosciuto, a play by Rosario Tedesco, based on the novel Address unknown by Katherine Kressmann-Taylor and accompanied by the children’s choir of Teatro Massimo. Available from 27 January on Teatro Massimo TV.

22. January 2021

Stream: Kent Nagano conducts Arnold Schönberg’s “Pierrot lunaire” (January 2021)

Under the musical direction of Kent Nagano and animated by Luis August Krawen, Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire with the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg is available as a stream from the Hamburg State Opera on YouTube. Soloists are Anja Silja, Nicole Chevalier and Marie-Dominique Ryckmanns.

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